The Bickerstaff Effect (1705–1710)
from Part II - London
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2020
The years up to 1710 were intensely productive for Swift in print. The Bickerstaff affair demonstrated the power of print to consolidate and further develop the techniques of anonymity on which it had relied to date, reaching a climax in the Bickerstaff hoax of 1708–9, and presenting in 1710 the elaborated but still technically anonymous fifth edition of the Tale.
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